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D.J. Brogan 797.9 Job offers — finally!I planned to move to Chapel Hill after finishing my PhD because my husbandhad been accepted at the University of North Carolina (UNC) as a linguisticsdoctoral student for fall of 1967. Early that year I contacted the UNCBiostatistics Department and the Duke University Medical Center to inquireabout available positions. Surprisingly, each school invited me for an interview.I visited both schools and gave a seminar about my dissertation resultsto date.Within the next several weeks I received from each school an attractiveoffer of a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. After much deliberationI chose UNC, primarily because of an interesting and unique opportunitythere. Dr. Bernard Greenberg, Biostatistics Chair, offered to appoint me asthe director of an already funded training grant in the department from NationalInstitute of Mental Health (NIMH) to develop and implement an MSPHprogram in mental health statistics. This offer combined my interests in statisticsand psychology; I had minored in psychology for both graduate degrees,including some psychometrics during my doctoral studies.7.10 Four years at UNC-Chapel HillUpon arrival at UNC another newly hired Assistant Professor and I met witha human resources specialist to review our fringe benefits. At the end of themeeting, the specialist informed the other faculty member that he would receivean attractive disability insurance policy paid for by UNC. When I inquiredif I would receive this fringe benefit, the male specialist answered no,explaining that women don’t need disability insurance since their husbandstake care of them financially. It did not matter to him, or the university, thatI was the wage earner for the family since my husband was a full-time graduatestudent.Finally I began to recognize these frequent occurrences as sex discrimination.I joined a women’s liberation group in Chapel Hill, and my feministconsciousness was raised indeed. I became an activist on women’s barriers toemployment and education, primarily within the American Statistical Association(ASA) but also at UNC. With others I founded the Caucus for Womenin Statistics in 1971 and served as its president the first three years. ConcurrentlyI spearheaded the formation of the ASA Committee on Women inStatistics (COWIS) and served as a member in its early days. These and lateractions were the basis for my receiving the COPSS Elizabeth Scott Awardin 1994.